Success has ruin'd many a man.

When you taste honey, remember gall.

Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in the different books that I read, I began to doubt of Revelation itself.

On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.

Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such wives as are none of the best

There is much difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.